| thread | |
| 1. n. A long, thin and flexible form of material, generally with a round cross-section, used in sewing, weaving or in the construction of string. | |
| 2. n. A continued theme or idea. | |
| All of these essays have a common thread. | |
| I’ve lost the thread of what you’re saying. | |
| 3. n. (engineering) A screw thread. | |
| 4. n. A sequence of connections. | |
| 5. n. The line midway between the banks of a stream. | |
| 6. n. (computing) A unit of execution, lighter in weight than a process, usually sharing memory and other resources with other threads executing concurrently. | |
| 7. n. (Internet) A series of messages, generally grouped by subject, in which all messages except the first are replies to previous messages in the thread. | |
| 8. n. A filament, as of a flower, or of any fibrous substance, as of bark. | |
| 9. n. (figurative) Composition; quality; fineness. | |
| 10. v. To put thread through. | |
| thread a needle | |
| 11. v. To pass (through a narrow constriction or around a series of obstacles). | |
| I think I can thread my way through here, but it’s going to be tight. | |
| 12. v. To screw on, to fit the threads of a nut on a bolt | |
